Hakobune (ha-koh-boo-nay) is the ever prolific Takahiro Yorifuji, from Japan. As Hakobune, Takahiro has released an incredible library of ambient music, composed on electric guitar. Eschewing the laborious single-note, long form “drone” expectations that have saturated the ambient genre, Takahiro instead focuses on dynamic shifting melodic phrases that overlap, shimmer, flow in and out of eachother, and ultimately, make for an enveloping, atmospheric listen. “Seamless and Here,” the first proper international full length LP by Hakobune, finds Takahiro, not making a statement so much as just doing what he does best. These compostions are tight, but billow like a sheet in the wind. They are concise, but retain an air of mystery.

This pressing, an edition of 500, comes in 5 colorways; editions of 100 each. Each colorway comes with a 150gm 12″ record in a recycled cardboard jacket, and download codes. Each record also comes with a 12×18 poster featuring color-coded artwork corresponding to the respective colorway of the record. All 500 records come with pink labels with gold print.

Two prolific artists of the ambient world, Will Long (Celer) and Takahiro Yorifuji (Hakobune) join forces on this 40 minute, two track work entitled Vain Shapes and Intricate Parapets. A moment frozen in time. Music for deep thought, reflection and longing.
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released 08 February 2013
All music by Will Long and Takahiro Yorifuji.

Unlearn the labyrinths etched in the tunnels and skylines and take the tunnels and take the skylines and the swell of the land that rambles through the treetops. This instant differs from the last with no reprise.

Two ambient producers (Hakobune / M. Sage) seperated by a myriad distance (Japan / USA), but connected by their curiousities. When melody and texture interact with emotion, or how. Pastoral waves of tone sweep across a prairie, banjo stroke, or the pine forest choir. A statue, a life crushed by centuries of listening, momentary shadows cast on plaster.